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We all are capable of many different emotions and behaviors and thoughts and abilities and the way we sometimes respond to something is just very, it could be very, very different. You can one day feel this way, and the next day, feel that way.

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Alexander Cockburn

So much for the crusade against drugs. . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

America, Drug, Industry, Substances, Thai, War
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

Casualty, Firsts, Nonsense, Sick, Truth, War

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

Against, Children, Growing, Growing Up, Peace, Truth

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

Lanka, Malaysia, Part, People, Sri Lanka, Thailand

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Infection, Inoculated, Prayer, Religious, Soul

Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.

Debating, Father, Party, Working, Writing, Years
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